Comparison

Alertable vs NimbusWx

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Alertable

Stay informed about emergencies and daily incidents across Canada. Receive fast, reliable notifications for public safety, severe weather, and local community events. Personalize alerts by type, severity, and location to know before you go.

Highlights
  • Canada-wide public safety alerts
  • Severe weather alerts
  • Customizable notifications
  • Location-based alerts
  • Sharable alerts
  • Local community notifications
  • Workplace alerts
Features
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Alertable emergency alerts and mass notifications keep you informed of emergencies and daily incidents in your community, workplace and school. Use Alertable for locations in Canada to stay aware and plan ahead. Check in advance for community events, closures, restrictions, hazards, danger and more. Know before you go. Keep yourself and others informed and up to date with Alertable. Notifications are fast, reliable and easy to see and hear. Personalize notifications by type and severity. Choose notifications for many locations including home, work, school, cottage, family and friends locations and more. Change your locations and other personalized options in Settings, after the fact. Key features: • Canada wide public safety alerts (from Canada’s Alert Ready emergency alert system) • severe weather alerts (from Environment and Climate Change Canada) • fast and reliable, highly optimized alert notifications • easy to setup and use • customizable, choose the types of critical, advisory and information alerts you wish to receive • targeted, alerts for only locations you are interested in • follow me, alerts for where you are at • maps, helpful for seeing the geographical area the alert is for • sharable, alerts can be shared on social media, email and text message • informative, emergency descriptions, impact areas and actions to take to remain safe • local, community notifications for closures, outages, restrictions, disruptions, re-openings, Interruptions and more • workplace, get alerts from your organization • accessible, full use by people with different abilities • multilingual, translate alerts into your device’s language setting

About

NimbusWx

Visualize complex weather model data in an easy-to-understand format. Create your own AI weather forecaster and access professional-grade meteorological information.

Highlights
  • Customizable AI weather forecaster
  • Select any coordinates on Earth
  • Compare multiple weather models
  • Save favorite locations
  • View advanced weather metrics
  • Access GFS, RDPS, HRDPS, GDPS, NAM, HRRR, RAP models
Features
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NimbusWx is a spot forecasting tool that visualizes the numeric model data from the weather computers used by industry experts. It's powered by the incredibly popular website SpotWx, which is used by professionals all over North America and the world. ***New in Version 1.2: Create your own custom AI weather forecaster - powered by chatGPT The difference between NimbusWx and other weather products is that we've lifted the veil on forecasts by giving you access to the raw weather data. That raw data is normally inaccessible because it requires special desktop software to open and interpret, we take that data and turn it into a human friendly visual format so you can make forecasts like a pro. NimbusWx features include: - Customizable AI weather forecaster. You can control what type of weather data you want to know about, and how the forecaster behaves. - Select any coordinates on Earth. - View and compare multiple weather models for your coordinates. - Save your favourite places for fast viewing. - See the models simulated altitude, and spatial / temporal resolution. - View advanced weather metrics. Models currently available on the mobile version: - GFS (Global Forecast System) - RDPS (Regional Deterministic Prediction System) - HRDPS Continental (High Resolution Deterministic Prediction System) - HRDPS 1km West (High Resolution Deterministic Prediction System) - GDPS (Global Deterministic Prediction System) - NAM (North American Mesoscale Model) - HRRR (High-Resolution Rapid Refresh) - RAP (Rapid Refresh) End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Alertable4 screens
NimbusWx4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Alertable at 4.7 against NimbusWx's 1.5. Alertable also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (61% vs 33%). NimbusWx's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. NimbusWx sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Alertable asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Alertable holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alertable has 177 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Alertable's written reviews are positive against 33% of NimbusWx's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alertable ships an update every 2 months, NimbusWx every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Alertable versus NimbusWx: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlertableNimbusWx
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (177 ratings) — better1.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews61.4% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings177 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPublic Emergency Alerting Services IncBenjamin Pearman

Customer experience

Alertable

All ratings177 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral1.7%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive61.4%
Neutral7.2%
Negative31.3%

NimbusWx

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Alertable

Reported bugs

23 issues
  • App not working after update
  • No alerts sent out
  • Misleading and late alerts
  • Old alerts cannot be deleted
  • Confusion with evacuation alert wording
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  • Poor Shuswap updates
  • Unreliable emergency alerts
  • Evacuation alerts too late
  • Garbage app
  • History not deletable
  • High battery drain
  • Alerts not informative enough
  • Too many alerts in a row
  • Early morning notifications
  • Huge drain on battery
  • Very slow to load
  • Not getting audio alerts
  • Cannot select region by panning
  • Alerts don't display properly
  • Useless in BC and most of Canada
  • No cities in California
  • Does not include my city
  • Weak privacy policy

Requested features

14 requests
  • Disable prompts asking to keep receiving alerts
  • Add dark mode
  • Allow selection of entire city by panning map
  • Remove pointless alert types
  • Ability to silence specific alert types
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  • Option to ignore specific alert types
  • Improve location accuracy for alerts
  • Add wildfire alerts
  • Differentiate evacuation alert levels visually
  • Allow deletion of old alerts
  • Provide more informative alerts
  • Include cities in California
  • Include more cities
  • Strengthen privacy policy for location tracking

NimbusWx

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Alertable

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

NimbusWx

Subscriptions1
  • All Access7 Days trial$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Alertable free?
Alertable is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NimbusWx free?
NimbusWx is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Alertable or NimbusWx?
Alertable is rated higher. Alertable averages 4.7 out of 5 from 177 ratings, while NimbusWx averages 1.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Alertable or NimbusWx have ads?
Neither Alertable nor NimbusWx shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Alertable or NimbusWx?
Alertable ships an update every 2 months, and NimbusWx every 5 days. Most recently, Alertable was updated on October 11, 2026 and NimbusWx on October 12, 2026.

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